To be perfectly honest I really didn’t want to devote any narrative to Brexit today, but given the importance of this week there wasn’t m...

I said at the beginning of the week that the dollar could have a fight on its hands and since then the USD index has fallen back close to...

On Wednesday I highlighted the risks of the JPY rising, most notably versus the AUD and the CAD and within less than 12 hours of me publi...

The markets are now underway for the New Year and the immediate first news of note is from China on Monday and again this morning with bo...

The Christmas period this year has seen almost unprecedented seasonal volatility in equity markets throw up some truly wild moves in the ...

Following my update on Monday, the ECB yesterday ended their QE programme, and as I suspected; in the process duly delivered a rather dow...

During the course of this week and next there are some key events that could have a significant impact on how the currency markets unfold...

More than a quarter of century ago the Bank of Japan (BOJ) started to really amass significant amounts of US government debt. At the time...

“Prospect theory” was first formulated in the late 70s’ and in a nutshell it assumes that gains and losses are valued differently and hen...

Price comparison websites have grown significantly in number and popularity over the past decade and now some of these ‘go compare’ sites...

Many pundits and forecasters out there believe the dollar to be overvalued right now. Well, certainly by the most recent matrix there is ...

Earlier in the week I posted an article highlighting the pound as being in danger. In that piece I said I would follow up with a technica...

The failure of the GBPUSD to hold onto another rebound above 1.3250 last week was of course all driven by the continued lack of traction ...

Generally speaking, people not involved in the markets tend to view currency swings with scepticism; thinking that the whole thing is jus...

Last Friday I published a short term chart of the US 10year bond yield. That yield actually rose further in late US trading, ahead of the...

As the markets await some important US data, due out at 1.30pm today- the latest monthly jobs report-many analysts will be looking beyond...

As we know hundreds of thousands of Brits already own property in countries across Europe with Spain and Portugal topping the list of fav...

The US central bank, the Federal Reserve raised rates on Wednesday evening by 0.25% and whilst that was entirely expected by the markets,...

The pound had been boosted last week by some surprisingly strong economic data. The latest inflation report and retail sales numbers both...

The pound got a lift yesterday following some positive comments from the EU chief negotiator, Michel Barnier who said he thought a positi...